... states, "Updike comes closest to meeting Virginia Woolf's demand that a writer's only job is to get himself, or herself, expressed without impediments." John Updike was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on March 18, 1932 but he grew up in the nearby city of Shillington where his father was a high ... to the lampoon. In 1954 John graduated from Harvard as summa cum laude and the same year the New Yorker publishes his first short story "Duet, with muffled brake drum " and a poem "Friends from Philadelphia ". Shortly before leaving Harvard to study at Oxford Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine ....

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• Grade Level: High School